All articles by Jonathan Holland – Page 4
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Reviews‘Sorcery’: Sundance Review
A young girl attempts to avenge her father’s death in this Chilean drama based on real events
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Reviews‘Mamacruz’: Sundance Review
Spanish comedy/drama features veteran Kiti Manver as a middle-aged woman exploring her sexuality
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Reviews‘21 Paraiso’: Seville Review
Spanish debut at Seville and Tallinn explores what happens when life in ‘paradise’ goes wrong
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Reviews‘Siete Jereles’: Seville Review
An exploration of the flamenco traditions of the Spanish city of Jerez
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Reviews‘Matadero’: Seville Review
Santiago Fillol’s directorial debut works an old Argentinian prose text into a potent modern film
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Reviews‘Walls Can Talk’: Seville Review
Spanish veteran Carlos Saura looks back to the origins of art
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Reviews‘Stories Not To Be Told’: San Sebastian Review
Cesc Gay hits his comfort zone and parks there for this half-throttle film of five stories
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Reviews‘Trenque Lauquen’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Citarella’s two linked features search for a missing woman in the pampa who might not want to be found
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Reviews‘The Kings Of The World’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Mora’s second feature follows five street kids from Medellin into the Colombian countyside as they try to claim what is theirs
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Reviews‘The Rite Of Spring’: San Sebastian Review
Spain’s Fernando Franco explores the unconventional relationship between an insecure woman and a man with cerebal palsy
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Reviews‘La Maternal’: San Sebastian Review
Pilar Palomero follows up ‘Schoolgirls’ with this intimate portrait of young Spanish mothers
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Reviews‘Suro’: San Sebastian Review
A Spanish couple attempt to make a new life on the land in Mikel Gurrea’s feature debut
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Reviews‘Pornomelancolia’: San Sebastian Review
A porn star struggles with loneliness in Manuel Abramovich’s sensitive feature debut
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Reviews‘Wild Flowers’: San Sebastian Review
Ana Castillo soars in Jaime Rosales’ drama about a young mother bouncing around a tough man’s world
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Reviews‘Daughter Of Rage’: Toronto Review
A child struggles to find her mother in this tense debut set on a giant dump in Nicaragua’s capital city
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Reviews‘World War III’: Venice Review
Mohsen Tanabandeh is extraordinary in Houman Seyedi’s darkly comic portrait of the making of a Holocaust film
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Reviews‘Anhell69’: Venice Review
Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya crafts a dark meditation on a nation, and a generation
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Reviews‘Beating Sun’: Venice Review
This compelling drama stars Swann Arlaud as a landscape architect obsessed with building a public garden
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Reviews‘Nezouh’: Venice Review
Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a delicate drama about a family in war-torn Syria
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Reviews‘The March On Rome’: Venice Review
Mark Cousins charts the rise of Mussolini and fascism in perhaps his most politically explicit film to date